Baking lights onto pre-existing texture/uvunwrap?

Pitvipr

I have a model that I am working on for Unreal2k4 and so far everything has been going according to plan. However, I have recently discovered how blown out my texture looks when I get in game with the character. The texture lacks varying values so the colors and textures have no depth. Is there a way I can sort of 'cheat' and use lights in Maya to bake some shadows onto the pre-existing texture map/UVunwrap and save that information onto the map?

Thanks for taking the time to read my 1st post.
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Guriamo

if youre using maya7 just use surface sampler to bake a "lit and shaded color map" maya8.5 you find that in the "transfer maps" window...

Pitvipr

Thankyou! I forgot to mention that I'm using Maya 8. doh!

Thanks Guriamo, I'll try some of your suggestions and dig deeper into this texture mapping process.